Income

Earnings per capita (USD, PPP) - past 14 days

This plot aggregates income from each of the three earning sources, across all working-age household members, stacking them to add to the average earning per capita, including children, in the past 14 days. If the household does not perceive income from one or more of the sources, those data points are assigned zeros to assure representativeness for the whole population.


Dissaving per capita (USD, PPP) - past 14 days
The dissaving variable is constructed by adding the value of assets sold and loans taken, and substracting the value of any assets or durables bought.


Transfers per capita (USD, PPP) - past 14 days
We ask whether in the past 14 days anyone in the household received a gift/assistance of money or goods, and its value, from (i) the government, (ii) from a non-governmental organization or community group, or (iii) from an individual politican or government official.


Consumption

Weekly consumption per capita (USD, PPP)

Own-food consumption accounts for own agricultural and pastoral production at market value. Pre-covid average uses 2016-2017 data.


Food Security

Number of days skipping meals in the past 7 days

Pre-COVID average uses data from 2016-2017.


Percentage of sample unable to buy usual amount of food due to:
We ask whether in the past 7 days, any household member was unable to buy the amount of food they usually buy because of: (i) price of food being too high, (ii) household income having dropped, and (iii) shortages in markets.


Other food hardship experiences, percentage of sample
We ask whether in the past 7 days, any household member experienced: (i) having to reduce the number of meals and/or the portion of each meal they would usually eat, (ii) difficulties in going to food markets due to mobility restrictions imposed by government, and (iii) difficulties in buying food due to most food markets being closed.


Household enterprises

Enterprises revenue and profits in the past 14 days


COVID-19

Reported COVID-19 Behavior Adoption
We ask respondents whether they have changed their behavior in any way since learning about COVID-19, and if so, how it has changed.


Reported COVID-19 Symptoms, past 14 days
We ask respondents whether they have experienced any illnesses or symptoms of a given list in the past 14 days.


Number of in-person interactions (other than HH members)
We ask: “Taken together, how many people outside this household have you interacted with in-person?”


Labor Supply

Weekly labor supply (hours per household adult)

This plot aggregates hours worked on each of the three sources, across all working-age household members, stacking them to add to the average weekly labor supply per household adult. If the household does not work any hours on one or more of the labor categories, those data points are assigned zeros to assure representativeness of the whole population.


Children Education

Children educational activities
We ask what has each child been doing over the last 15 minutes, whether the child has done any learning-related activities in the past 24 hours, and if so, what kind of activity. From this question we also learn whether the child attended school.


Household Violence

Gender violence

We ask married/cohabitant female respondents whether their husband/partner has (i) threaten to harm them or someone close to them, (ii) hit, slapped, kicked, or physically hurt them, and (iii) forced them to perform sexual acts.*

*This plot shows data only for the share of female respondents that were surveyed by a female field officer, and are currently married or living with a partner. This sub-sample accounts for ~55% of all married/cohabitant females in the study sample, and ~36% of all females.


Violence in the household
We ask: (i) Over the past 14 days, has there been a higher than usual amount of fights with members of your household?, and (ii) In the past 14 days, did you or your partner ever beat any of the children living in this household?


Trust

Trust in government

How much do you trust your country’s government to take care of its citizens?


Trust in other people

Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you need to be very careful in dealing with people?


Mental health

Depression, CES-D-10

The Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-10) is a 10-item Likert scale questionnaire assessing depressive symptoms in the past week. It includes three items on depressed affect, five items on somatic symptoms, and two on positive affect. Options for each item range from “rarely or none of the time” (score of 0) to “all of the time” (score of 3). Scoring is reversed for positive affect statements. Total scores can range from 0 to 30. Higher scores suggest greater severity of symptoms.


We also ask questions 1-5 on core mental health from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) resource.

Nervious, anxious or on edge

In the past 7 days, how often have you felt nervous, anxious, or on edge?


Depressed

In the past 7 days, how often have you felt depressed?


Lonely

In the past 7 days, how often have you felt lonely?


Hopeful about the future

In the past 7 days, how often have you felt hopeful about the future?


Had physical reactions due to COVID-19

In the past 7 days, how often have you had physical reactions, such as sweating, trouble breathing, nausea, or a pounding heart, when thinking about your experience (e.g., social distancing, loss of income/work, concerns about infection) with the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic?


Food prices

Food 1


Food 2


Food 3


Other prices

Services


Livestock


Non-food


Heat Maps

Price Index

Price index calculated in 2018 USD using household consumption weights.


Total Weekly Consumption


Face Mask Usage

These data comes from phone survey interviews conducted by REMIT Kenya in Siaya County, Kenya. We are collecting data for a sample of ~12,000 households in the county, which is representative of the whole population. At the same time, our weekly sampling method assures weekly representativeness of the overall sample.

So far we have interviewed 8,293 households, with the following distribution per week:

Week Dates Number of surveys
Week 1 05 April 2020 - 11 April 2020 745
Week 2 12 April 2020 - 18 April 2020 744
Week 3 19 April 2020 - 25 April 2020 1,478
Week 4 26 April 2020 - 02 May 2020 1,146
Week 5 03 May 2020 - 09 May 2020 1,499
Week 6 10 May 2020 - 16 May 2020 986
Week 7 17 May 2020 - 23 May 2020 1,217
Week 8 24 May 2020 - 30 May 2020 478